Plot

Lisa's husband Robert fakes his death in a plane crash to collect insurance. She's trapped between helping him commit fraud and her growing feelings for David Barnes, until she makes one final, desperate choice.

Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him again. She is with newspaperman Alan Stewart that evening when she learns Robert's plane has crashed with no survivors. Waking from sedation after the funeral, Lisa finds Robert in their flat, injured but alive. He was thrown clear of the crash by a lucky twist of fate. He now plans to collect the $120,000 insurance he took out at the airport. Once Lisa collects the money and turns it over to him, she will finally be rid of him. She attempts to get advice from Stewart, but he has been replaced by David Barnes. Lisa's life becomes a tortuous ordeal, at work, at home, faced with a fugitive husband and a growing love for David, who suspects everything. Finally her nightmare concludes when she finally gets the check and meets Robert. As they drive to the Belgian border, he reveals he never intended giving her up to Barnes or anyone else. If she dares go, he will tell the police all and she will be arrested--as accessory to fraud. Lisa realizes she must take the desperate step to freedom. Once taken, there is no turning back.—alfiehitchie

In Paris, Italian Lisa Macklin tells her husband, American Bob Macklin, just before he heads off on a business trip to Casablanca that she plans to divorce him in she classifying their relationship as a nurse mother taking care of a spoiled little boy. Their problems are punctuated by his abuse of her, both physical and emotional. That divorce does not occur as his flight crashes in southwest France killing all on board. Three days after the funeral, Lisa discovers that Bob, ejected from the plane as it crashed, survived, he, slightly injured, able to make his way back to their apartment without detection. The reason for the secrecy is that he wants her to collect his life insurance for him after which he will leave her life, ostensibly giving her that "divorce" while he gets rich in the process. His plan is to hide out in their apartment until the money arrives. But one delay after another in the process leads to both Lisa and Bob having to endure their time together much longer than anticipated. The pressures that build up between them is only exacerbated by the possibility of someone detecting him in the apartment, and American David Barnes, new to the neighborhood, wanting to get to know newly "widowed" Lisa in an intimate sense.—Huggo